Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
There are basically no companies that have good slow decisions. There are only companies that have good fast decisions.
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.
If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.
Every employee in a company depends on the C.E.O. to make fast, high-quality decisions.
Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
The more decisions we make in a day, the more likely we are to make bad decisions - because deciding wears us down. You start making decisions in the morning, and by the middle of the afternoon, you're running on fumes.
It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
It's not the quantity of your decisions; it's the quality.
Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead to better decisions is a question seldom asked, much less answered.
